Thomas Kuhn (Thomas Samuel Kuhn) Quotes
What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.
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I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.
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Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
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Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.
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I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself.
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My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs.
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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
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What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
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Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.
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My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
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I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
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John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.
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Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.
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I always carry a good lipstick with me, like MAC in Ruby Woo. It has a matt finish, the essence of that vintage glamour look.
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If I'm not in the mood to deal with you, then I just don't deal with you. I look at it like, me not dealing with you could save me a lot of trouble - me forcing myself to deal with you could bring me a lot of trouble. So I just play it by ear.
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If you look at sort of how politics has divided itself here in this country, the big divide right now is between urban areas, which have become increasingly Democratic, and rural or exurban areas that feel as if they're being ignored.
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Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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You look in excellent health to me, Potter, so you will excuse me if I don't let you off homework today. I assure you that if you do die, you need not hand it in.
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Even though two and two might look like four, it could be three or five.
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There are days when everyone in the world looks like a Diane Arbus to me. She's a genius but her work is completely different to mine. But on those days I don't use my camera.
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I ask my destiny - what power is this That cruelly drives me onward without rest? My destiny says, "Look round!" I turn back and see It is I myself that is ever pushing me from behind.
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For me, Wimbledon is such a special tournament. I feel at home when I play there, and the grass is perfect.
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I came in on the tail end of the old school of Hollywood.
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What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.
